Re: Are membership renewals generally discussed publicly on the list? (was Re: Setting moderation bit for members who consistently hijack topics)

[Jeremy Allison <jra google com>]

Yes. This seems to have gone beyond the realm of reasonableness and into a personal attack on another Foundation member. Please don't do this.

I am only on this list due to the benefit of sitting on top of Google's pile of money, some of which we contribute to Gnome. I am too busy with my own Free Software project to be able to directly contribute to Gnome code. Will I be the next to be attacked for not being sufficiently useful to Gnome ?

Jeremy.

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn ebb org> wrote:

Is it standard procedure for credentials of Foundation members to be
discussed on-list like this -- particularly for existing members in good
standing?

For example, I don't recall my own membership being discussed herein when I
was renewed; it was done in private email with the Membership Committee.

My GNOME contributions have indeed been eclectic, non-regular and, well, just
plain "different" than the norm.  For example, I've helped with licensing
policy discussions and drafting, and I've done some work to defend GNOME 3
publicly against the "Linus Torvalds attacks".

Meanwhile, upon reading this sub-thread and considering my own contributions
to the GNOME Foundation, I'm frankly left wondering if my membership would be
"next" to be called into question on this thread.  I imagine that I'd feel
*really* uncomfortable and even personally offended if my own membership were
being called into question publicly on this list!

Thus, IMO, it frankly seems unnecessarily aggressive and downright
inappropriate to question someone's fitness for membership on the public list
like this, and I hope that folks will show restraint and raise any such
issues privately among the Membership Committee and the member in question.

   -- bkuhn
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